Freeport joins protest against Chase
Photo credit: AP | Fellow protesters waiting their turn to be arrested applaud as Tommy Beard, who lost his home, is marched away, part of a protest by people who had lost their homes to foreclosure, or have been battling banks over loan modification, and their supporters, outside a Chase bank branch in downtown Los Angeles. (December 16, 2010)
The Village of Freeport, the Hempstead Village Housing Authority and Long Island Jobs with Justice closed their Chase accounts Thursday, joining with Hempstead Village, which earlier closed its accounts to protest the bank's mortgage-modification practices.
"They have got to come clean," said Freeport village Mayor Andrew Hardwick, who said the village has about 200 foreclosed homes. "They...
